3.04.2013

Bonus gem

More extraordinary statements from an extraordinary industry (financial services). Here's a very special one from a "financial services expert" at PA Consulting Group (via FT, where else?):

"The great core strength of banks is their ability to take an intelligent view of the value of an asset and its associated risk."

So that core purpose must have just slipped bankers' minds in what made 2012 a record year for massive risk fall-outs at the world's biggest banks:
Then again, maybe JP Morgan leader Jamie Dyman was acknowledging the bitter truth when he said this during his semi-apology to Congress:

“We’re doing what a bank is supposed to do."

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